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The Week Junior Show

More PE Sports and a National Lying Down Contest!

The Week Junior Show

Fun Kids

News, Kids & Family, News Commentary, Education For Kids

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week we're finding out about how people in Libya have been pulling together to help others, a clever new paint that scientists have discovered that helps people keep their houses cool and whether PE should include more sports?

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0:00.0

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0:05.9

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0:13.2

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0:18.8

and captures criminals. Alice's adventures are available at all good bookshops.

0:25.4

Hello and welcome to The Week Junior Show. We've got another fun packed episode for you this week.

0:29.9

We're going to be finding out how people in Libya have been pulling together to help others,

0:34.1

talking about a clever new paint that scientists have developed to cool people's houses down.

0:38.9

And in our big debate, we'll be discussing whether PE should include more sports.

0:43.2

So to tell us all about these stories and more, we're joined by a two-of-the-team

0:47.2

from The Week Junior Magazine. We've got writer Eve and editorial assistant K.

0:52.1

So before we start the show, it's time for our question of The Week. Seeing as we're talking about

0:56.0

PE later, I want to know what used to be your favourite activity to do in PE at school.

1:01.2

Now PE, for me, was my worst subject. I was terrible at it, hated it. My teachers didn't give

1:06.8

us many topics to do, apart from running. We did cross-country all the time. We had a spinny,

1:11.6

which is like a big woods near where we went to school and we ran through it.

1:15.3

I lost my shoe there once. It got sucked into the mud and I had hopped back into the classroom

1:22.2

to shoot us. I had one trainer, I had to go home and say to my parents, can you buy me some

1:25.4

trainers, please? I hated cross-country so much. I did enjoy table tennis, but I'm aware

1:30.5

does that qualify as a PE sport? Probably not. So basically, the long short of it is,

1:35.4

there was no favourite activity for me to do in PE at school, but Eve, maybe you've got a better

1:39.0

answer than I have. I have to say, I do agree with you that cross-country is literally the worst

1:43.7

thing in the world. But I used to really enjoy tennis and badminton. My brother is a tennis coach

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